Making Quotes

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.

I had tried to get focused on other things. But I always ended up back in the same place, and it wasn't making me happy. I needed to get the focus back.

You're making me feel like a skunk at the garden party.

I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.

The thing that people associate with expertise, authoritativeness, kind of with a capital 'A,' don't correlate very well with who's actually good at making predictions.

I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making.

I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.

I don't think you want to hurt businesses that are making $250,000 or $500,000. Those are the real people who created the opportunity to put people to work.

When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.

Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.

Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.

They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.

A lot of people feel that there is less artistry involved in cartoon making unless they have painstaking control of each frame.

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

So now, cut to ten years later, and I'm making this amazing contract with Pantene. It's incredible.

When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.

Sometimes it can be bad to have too much family. Everybody gets involved in your problems, giving their opinion, gossiping, and making drama. But when bad things happen, they will be there to support you.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

George Lucas doesn't have the most physical stamina. He was so unhappy making Star Wars that he just vowed he'd never do it again.

To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.

A two-and-a-half-year-old is pretty experienced at making a mess, anyway.

Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.

'Red Knot' is a film that I shot in Antarctica almost three years ago on a boat. It was a film that was improvised and it had very interesting circumstances while making the film, obviously. We were on a small boat bobbing around in Antarctica. It was a really remarkable experience.

I like to make jokes; I consider myself a funny person. I just think making jokes about people who are in a situation beyond their control is not funny to them or their families.

You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which "clicks."